School of Design and Production

Sound Design

If a musical crescendo takes your breath away, or an eerie stage whisper gives you
chills, then the sound designer has done their job. It’s the sound designer’s job
to take an empty room, and fill each inch of space with the right volume, pitch and
tone for music, sound effects and vocals. This complicated study of sound and construction
is offered in the four-year undergraduate Sound Design program at the University of
North Carolina School of the Arts.